Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging is a technique now more than thirty years old. It is most familiar in human medicine as MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). From the very beginning, however, it has also been seen as a more general technique, applicable to microscopic objects of all kinds, animals, plants, geological specimen, and manufactured articles, as well as to phenomena such as flow, motion, diffusion, and chemical change. These latter applications have been overshadowed in the technical and popular press by the success of MRI in solving human health problems. This book will help to restore the balance in the field. It covers a very wide range of systems and phenomena, and will not only inform the reader about these less familiar areas, but will suggest new ideas useful in human medicine to those who have become very familiar with the most popular commercial instruments and their uses. It is therefore both informative and inspiring, not only in medical applications but in a much broader world. Even if individual chapters seem far afield from the reader's experience and interest, they will repay careful reading and thoughtful analysis by the mental stimulation they offer. This is an admirable and much overdue book.

Paul C. Lauterbur
====================================================================================
Professor Paul C. Lauterbur
Dept. of Chemistry, Box 51-6
University of Illinois
600 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801 USA.

Prof. Paul C. Lauterbur won the Nobel Prize 2003 in MRI

Home